Journal of Rural Studies

Article	Citations
Volunteer tourism in rural France: Examining power dynamics, labour practices, and community interactions	207
The impact of Brexit on SME lending in the UK	185
Concerns and barriers surrounding the farm succession process – perception versus reality for beef farmers in Ireland	174
The gendered motives and experiences of Canadian women farmers in short food supply chains: Work satisfaction, values of care, and the potential for empowerment	168
Public contestations against the disturbance, degradation, and destruction of Sámi pastoral landscapes in northern Sweden	158
Lethal violence across areas of the rural-urban continuum: Evidence from Pernambuco, Brazil	150
Enabling the delivery of rural affordable housing in England	123
Farmer competencies for successful farming in Sub-Sahara Africa	119
Contemporary interventions tackling complex issues: Exploring pathways from online mental health forums to personal resilience	109
(In)visible newcomers: Foreign workers and internal urban-rural migrants in Japan's countryside	102
The evolution, interaction, and management of rural resilience in Jiangsu province, China: Insights from a social-ecological system	89
“Making sense of rural identities in future horizons of Dutch and German students living in rural areas”	87
Punitive attitudes in Australia: Investigating the rural-urban divide	86
Conditions for doing business in rural areas: Survey evidence from in-movers and stayers	86
Striking roots: Place attachment of international migrants, internal migrants and local natives in three Norwegian rural municipalities	85
Hidden tunnels, drowned dragons, and other subterranean secrets: Environmental politics of small-scale mining in Colombia	83
Community perceptions of carbon farming: A case study of the semi-arid Mulga Lands in Queensland, Australia	82
The changing rural idyll and the ideal migrant: The case of Scotland during COVID-19	81
Exploring the farmland-livelihood nexus among vulnerable rural households: A case study from a main grain production region of Northeast China	78
Spatial-temporal patterns and driving mechanism of rural vulnerability at county level：A case study of 117 counties in Heilongjiang Province, China	78
Identifying and characterising social sustainability in the Dutch agricultural sector	77
Conditions for Co-creation: Lessons from a planning tool for rural facility decline	76
Alternative places for alternative people? A changing ecovillage discourse from Othered lifestyle to another rurality	75
The application of a sentiment analysis approach to explore public understandings of animal agriculture	73
Improving the design of local short food supply chains: Farmers’ views in Wallonia, Belgium	73

The potential effects of climate change on subsistence farmers’ wellbeing in tropical (sub)montane homegardens. A case study on Mount Kilimanjaro	72
Smallholders’ livelihoods in the presence of commercial farms in central Kenya	72
Pesticide resistance and community collapse: The vicious cycle of rural disintegration and agricultural expansion	71
Spatiotemporal patterns, regional differences, and formation mechanisms of demonstration villages and towns in China	70
“You never farm alone”: Farmer land-use decisions influenced by social relations	69
Factors influencing farmer participation in bottom-up collaborative agri-environment-climate measures	67
Rural creativity for community revitalization in Bishan Village, China: The nexus of creative practices, cultural revival, and social resilience	66
Rurality and social innovation processes and outcomes: A realist evaluation of rural social enterprise activities	58
Economic and environmental determinants of farm succession. The empirical evidence from Wielkopolska region (Poland)	57
Using mass media campaigns to change pesticide use behaviour among smallholder farmers in East Africa	56
The impact of mental health on the technical efficiency of Chinese arable farmers	55
Editorial Board	55
The effect of management accounting practices and ICT on the efficiency of organic farms	53
Migrants in the economy of European rural and mountain areas. A cross-national investigation of their economic integration	53
Integrated food policies in south-western France: Insights from local policy-making outside major urban areas	52
Empowering European farmers: Insights from decolonial theory and indigenous people in Latin America	51
Rethinking the near collapse of certification programmes in commodity value chains: A temporal myopia perspective	50
Farmer technology adoption in Cambodia: The impact of climate change, risk aversion, and crop type	49
Evaluating rural municipal climate change plans in ontario, Canada	49
Medical assistance in dying in rural communities: A review of Canadian policies and guidelines	48
Addressing the challenges of agro-cattle farming in Bangladesh: A study on educated youth entrepreneurs	48
Perceived justice of the Dutch food system transition	47
Value chains for sustainable mountain development: a qualitative understanding of 23 European cases	47
Symbolic economy of bike rentals in rural and suburban Hong Kong: Capital conversion in competitiveness of traditional and innovative firms	46
Racializing rural places through USDA home economics agricultural extension, 1965–1982	46
LEADER and rural development policy - What's the problem represented to be?	46
Coal seam gas extraction and related landscape changes in the agricultural production area of Western Downs (Queensland, Australia)	45
Economic and environmental upgrading after a policy reform: The case of timber value chain in Myanmar	45
Farm stress and the production of rural sacrifice zones	44
Regional drivers or local constraints? Spatial patterns and development pathways of specialized villages in Henan, China	44
Post-pandemic developments in lifestyle migration in Japan: From back-to-the-land to urbanrural?	44
Rurality and latent precarity: Growing older in a small rural New Zealand town	43
Getting money in the country: Is there a liability of rurality facing SMEs?	43
Rural housewives clubs- unlocking the potential of Women's agency in local development in Poland	43
Governing the reterritorialization of agricultural activities: An assessment of food planning policies in France	43
Scholar-institutional entrepreneurs in rural tourism path innovation: the case of Azheke plan in China	42
(Dis)connections between youth migration and food security in a rural community of the Sierra de Santa Marta, Veracruz, Mexico	41
Blame it on the rain: Rainfall shock and consumption smoothing in rural China	41
Between on-site and the clouds: Socio-cyber-physical assemblages in on-farm diversification	41
Corrigendum to “Climate-smart agriculture & the impact of financial incentives on adoption: an econometric analysis” [J. Rural Stud., 123, March 2026, 104035]	41
‘What we'd like is a CSA in every town.’ Scaling community supported agriculture across the UK	40
Learning, adaptation and resilience: The rise and fall of local food networks in Denmark	40
Understanding the socio-cultural resilience of rural areas through the intergenerational relationship in transitional China: Case studies from Guangdong	40
The geography of poverty: Review and research prospects	40
Farmers' perceived values in intercropping: An application of the means end chain framework in Swedish agriculture	40
Unmaking capitalism through community empowerment: Findings from Italian agricultural experiences	39
Elaborating decent work for agriculture: Job experiences and workforce retention in the Australian orchard industry	39
Rural co-working: New network spaces and new opportunities for a smart countryside	39
The rural development trilemma	38
Ensuring milk quality: Contextualizing the knowledge of Kenyan small-scale milk traders who connect farmers with low-income consumers	38

Editorial Board	37
The long-term impact of land certification on factor reallocation and household welfare in rural China	37
Editorial Board	37
Identifying new social enterprise models in the Italian municipalities	37
Gender as an entangled force: Gendered mining entanglements, labor organization and leadership structure in artisanal and small-scale mining	36
Editorial Board	36
Historical transitions of seed breeding in China: From socialist cooperation to joint research	36
It doesn't bother me: An intersectional analysis of discrimination among white women farmers in the US Corn Belt	36
Empowering farmers to conserve grassland's genetic diversity in situ	35
Wellbeing dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa: a spatial perspective across territorial typologies	35
Beyond human health – Exploring farmers' perspectives on pesticides in Swiss agriculture	35
Gender difference in time-use of off-farm employment in rural Sichuan, China	35
Post-socialist generation change in Hungarian farming	34
Tourism and coexistence between branded and natural wines: the case of Calonge i Sant Antoni	34
Women empowering rural Spain: A study of entrepreneurial career satisfaction	34
Communities of practice and rural women's empowerment: Insights from a case study of grassroots cooperative in Turkey	34
How does gender shape the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices? Evidence from Belgium	33
Farmers’ limited perceptions of the role of ecological processes in crop production, a potential obstacle to agroecological transition	33
Advancing AKIS with assemblage thinking	32
Gendered cognition, intra-household preference divergence, and behavioral choice: How gender differences shape GM maize adoption in smallholder families	32
Social innovation in rural governance: A comparative case study across the marginalised rural EU	32
Social innovation and their legitimation processes within rural developments in east Germany	32
Understanding terraced cropland marginalization in China's mountainous areas: Process, characteristics, and underlying mechanisms	32
Non-metropolitan settlement and integration outcomes of humanitarian migrants in Australia: Combining spatial, multidimensional and longitudinal perspectives	32
Agricultural value chain transformations: A comparative analysis of milling segment upgrading in the rice value chains in Ghana and Ivory Coast	32
What typifies participatory art projects in the countryside? A quantitative study of the rural-urban continuum of community-based art initiatives	31
An analytical framework to consider social justice issues in farmland preservation on the urban fringe. Insights from three French cases	31
Policy intervention mechanism on farmers’ intention to promote water-saving irrigation: Evidence from China	31
Newcomers and rural crisis: Beyond the demographic challenge. A case study in Andalusia (Spain)	31
Farmers’ adaptive behaviors towards wildlife incidents regarding national park management: The role of informal institutions	31
Unpacking local food politics in scaling sustainable public food procurement	31
Europe's orchard: The role of irrigation on the Spanish agricultural production	31
Designing precision livestock farming system innovations: A farmer perspective	31
Who are to support the aged in rural China? The study of people's willingness to purchase socialized care service and its influencing factors	30
Diversity evolution pattern of rural settlements and its driving mechanism transition: A case study in Southwest China's karst mountains	30
Media framing of migrant labour in UK fruit and vegetable production: An analysis of reporting in UK farming and mainstream print press	29
A comparison of the mental health impacts and resilience of healthcare workers in rural Manitoba during the COVID-19 pandemic	29
Extensionists as mediators of agricultural skill ecosystems: A study from North India	29
Marginalisation through the eyes of the othered: Young adults choosing to live in rural Northern Sweden	29
The European Green Deal and the peasant cause: Class frustration, cultural backlash and right-wing nationalist populism in farmers’ protests in Poland	29
Scaling up cross-village land consolidation while maintaining local legitimacy: Evidence from Zijiao Town, China	29
Producing an ideal village: Imagined rurality, tourism and rural gentrification in China	29
Demand for veterinary services in Cambodia: Determining factors and differing roles of service providers	28
Understanding resilience capacities in rural AGRO-Industries: Evidence from Spanish wineries	28
The “White middle-class farming woman”: Instagram and settler colonialism in contemporary rural Australia	28
End of life, a good death? Navigating end-of-life decisions for working mules (Equus asinus × Equus caballus) in Nepal: Ethical, cultural, and practical perspectives	28
Governing modesty: Platformed urban gaze and rural Chinese housewives on Douyin	28
The potential of local online shopping platforms for villages and small and medium-sized towns	27
Beef as a socio-cultural identity: Rural and urban consumers' attitudes from Rio Grande do sul, Brazil, facing cultured beef	27
A cross-domain coupling framework for digital twins in rural regional systems: Insights from China	27
Editorial Board	27
Shifting forest landownership interests over the life-course of female forest landowners in rural Georgia, United States	27
Do organic farming initiatives in Sub-Saharan Africa improve the sustainability of smallholder farmers? Evidence from five case studies in Ghana and Kenya	27
Spatially explicit restructuring of rural settlements: A dual-scale coupling approach	27
Out of balance? Understanding resident-municipality relations in rural peripheries through ascriptions of responsibility	27
Under-capacitated and over-powered? Rural austerity and asymmetrical negotiating relationships in US wind energy development	27
Does the democratization level of village governance affect perceptions of security and integrity of land rights? -An analysis from the perspective of social network abundance	27
The elements of intuition in decision-making: A multidimensional framework based on Finnish regenerative farmers’ experiences	26
Maintaining emergency services in rural areas. Recruitment, retention and resignation of non-career firefighters in Sweden	26
Technical knowledge acquisition modes and environmental sustainability in Spanish organic farms	26
What influences the development of wine-producing regions? New economic opportunities in the eastern foothills of the Helan Mountains in China	26
Digital rurality: A three-fold model and research agenda	26
Experiences of dementia in farming communities: A scoping review	26
Revealing nested archetypes of cropland abandonment based on social-ecological system theory	26
Stability and long-term strategies for poverty alleviation in China from the perspective of multi-dimensional relative poverty: Nationwide county-level analysis	25
Post-rural mental health: Developing Nye et al.’s research agenda for mental health in agricultural areas	25
The green transformation and gender equality in agricultural entrepreneurship: Insights from the European Union	25
Analysis of rural economic restructuring driven by e-commerce based on the space of flows: The case of Xiaying village in central China	25
Enacting rural community resilience: An agency theoretical perspective on an emerging local food community	25
Community Co-creation through knowledge (Co)Production: The engagement of universities in promoting rural revitalization in China	25
Home is where the welfare is: Healthcare portability and settlement intentions of rural migrants in China	25
Challenges facing agricultural cooperatives in Mediterranean countries	25
Editorial Board	24
What affects farmers' intention to learn about sustainability in online settings? An application of the extended theory of planned behaviour in Slovenia	24
Rural-urban interfaces and changing forms of relational and planetary rurality	24
(Re)enclosure, structural violence and commoning in marine fisheries in the Gulf of Mottama, Myanmar	24
How can rural e-commerce promote green production on family farms in China? Evidence from Hunan Province	24
Challenges and opportunities for the rural Cop in Trinidad and Tobago	24
Place-based rural development: A role for complex adaptive region assemblages?	24
Localized practices of rural tourism makers from a resilience perspective: A comparative study in China	24

The humans behind the herd: are alternative livestock farms agroecological from a socioeconomic perspective?	23
Rural transition in the loess hilly and gully region: From the perspective of “flowing” cropland	23
Black Ecologies, subaquatic life, and the Jim Crow enclosure of the tidewater	23
Intermediate levels of socio-ecological disturbance drive higher biodiversity in naturally regenerating forests: A case study from Nepal	23
Factors influencing the decision of young adults to remain in their rural environment: Social origin, education and gender	23
A relational approach to pesticide use: Farmers, herbicides, nutsedge, and the weedy path to pesticide use reduction objectives	23
“We left the crop there lying in the field”: Agricultural worker experiences with the COVID-19 pandemic in a rural US-Mexico border region	22
Rebalancing healthcare utilization: Rural-urban health insurance integration and health-seeking behavior of rural residents in China	22
Learning from the past and embracing future opportunities: Perceptions of new Environmental Land Management Schemes and private nature markets	22
“A lender should not know where you live”: Financial precarity, debt, and everyday life in rural Malawi and Tanzania	22
Understanding the barriers and enablers to agroforestry adoption in Ireland through an innovation systems approach	22
Agricultural tenancies in Scotland: how much does the legislative framework affect the power balance between landowners and tenants?	22
Inter- and intra-annual changes in food consumption among rural households in East China	22
Residential migration among veterans with experience of housing instability	22
The role of government interventions in household climate adaptation on the Tibetan Plateau	22
The impact of people's creativity and networks on spatial localisation - Locals, multi-locals, newcomers or returnees as an opportunity for civic engagement in rural areas	22
“You sleep with your eyes open”: Understanding rural crime and its implications for community well-being	22
Agricultural dynamism and the influence of territorial characteristics in attracting young farmers	22
Has farmer welfare improved after rural residential land circulation?	21
Impact of farmer differentiation on farmland abandonment: Evidence from Fujian's hilly mountains, China	21
Reciprocal reconstruction of regulatory and capital power: A dynamic interaction between local governments and land buyers in rural land value capture	21
Increase of fear of crime in rural Brazil and police legitimacy	21
Investigating robot acceptance in UK agriculture	21
Community-supported agriculture and allotment gardens as collective forms of food production – Investigating the effect of social capital on perceived benefits	21
Deliberative assembling: Tinkering and farmer agency in precision agriculture implementation	21
The global cotton trade network reveals a shift in the cotton import center to the global south from 1986 to 2020	20
New pathways for women’s empowerment in pastoralist Maasai households, Tanzania	20
Place-based rural development: building capacities, multi-actor collaborations and making sense of the local ‘place’	20
Justifications for farm practices and animal welfare among Norwegian livestock farmers	20
State-led commodification of rural China and the sustainable provision of public goods in question: A case study of Tangjiajia, Nanjing	20
Navigating industrial decline: A case study of place attachment and social capital in economic transition –Valemount, British Columbia	20
Land dispossession, rural gentrification and displacement: Blurring the rural-urban boundary in Chengdu, China	20
Editorial Board	20
Investments are more than money: Emerging investment rationales and farmers in the Danish agri-food system	20
Imagining an agrarian future in rural Rwanda: Evidence from Congolese refugees at Mahama camp	20
Effect of China's new rural pension scheme on the consumption of relatively poor households	20
“The ground beneath our feet is still holding strong”: Physical and symbolic capital in the rural youth movements crisis in Israel	20
Social network analysis to identify actors for participatory food system transformation – Learning from two case studies in Switzerland	20
“With the horizon ahead”: Emancipatory politics and radical imagination in the Catalan Pyrenees	20
Creative assets, people, and places: Rural art action practices of US nonprofit organizations	20
What makes peripheral places matter? Applying the concept of political capital within a multiple capital framework	20
Building the plane in the air: Articulating neo-endogenous rural development from the ground up	20
Effects of digital economy-driven Chinese-style agricultural modernisation--based on analysis of mediating effects and spatial spillovers	20
Role of soil perception and soil variability by smallholder farmers in the low adoption rates of extension packages in Central America	20
Identifying the specific features, determinants, and suitability of green homestay inn distribution in rural China	20
Does planning production expansion have its intended effect in reality? Evidence from the dairy sector in Poland	19
Migration, class and intra-distinctions of whiteness in the making of inland rural Victoria	19
Prefiguring the counter-hegemony of open cooperativism: The case of Open Food Network	19
Are landholders willing to collaborate under ELMs? Promoting collaborative conservation on a landscape scale in the UK	19
Farmers and their data: Evaluating the swiss conception of data sharing through the lens of digital farming	19
Promotional campaigns in the agri-food sector aimed at reducing meat consumption: A promising leverage for action	19
How digital literacy influence rural residents' demand for low-carbon housing renovations?	19
>Intersectional knowledge as rural social innovation	19
Understanding the impact of identity and socio-economic factors on the adoption of soil conservation practices: Empirical evidence from Australia	19
Scaling up mechanisms in citizen farming initiatives: Lessons learned from a citizen-led and collective agroecological farm	19
Putting access to internet-enabled work in its place: Insights from rural Atlantic Canada	19
Angling for change? A study of a Swedish public-private partnership for sustainable rural fisheries tourism	19
How mega events redefine rurality? CunBA and the (re)production of rurality in China	19
Wine grape grower perceptions and attitudes about soil health	19
Family farming and gender in a valley in northern Spain	19
Deciphering how promoting land consolidation for village revitalization in rural China: A comparison study	18
Promoting rural revitalization in ethnic minority areas through characteristic plant industries: A comprehensive development framework from Yunnan with cross-regional comparative insights	18
Understanding stress factors in farming: A nationwide survey on occupational strain and mental health among Austrian farmers	18
Farmland titling, farmland adjustment and rural collective action: Application of institutional analysis and development framework using evidence from China's irrigation commons	18
Corrigendum to “Servant leadership and members' well-being in China's village committees: A multilevel analysis of the serial mediating roles of serving culture and organization-based self-esteem” [J.	18
Urban-rural mobilities: The case of China's rural tourism makers	18
Contesting rural Australia in the time of accelerating climate change	18
Policy and politics: How specialist farming media frame climate action	18
Navigating spatial justice: Exploring municipal planners’ logics in differentiated village planning	18
Rural revival? The rise in internal migration to rural areas during the COVID-19 pandemic. Who moved and Where?	18
An urban-rural divide (or not?): Small firm location and the use of digital technologies	18
Connectivity or proximity planning in rural areas? Accessibility and equity insights from Crete, Greece	18
Beyond the idyll: The recreation of rurality within rural consumption space through a new materialism approach in traditional villages in Yi County, China	18
Seaweed aquaculture through the lens of gender: Participation, roles, pay and empowerment in Bantayan, Philippines	18
Spatial association of coastal towns and villages in Funing District, Qinhuangdao: A study using social network analysis	17
A narrative study of why young people go ‘back-to-the-land’: Interpretation from the perspective of self-identity theory	17
Ageing in place in a rural town in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Deweyan transactional perspective	17
Real estate 4.0 – Experiences from the rural	17
Food transfers and translocal livelihoods in rural Africa – Longitudinal perspectives from six countries	17
Gender (in)equity and the adoption of farm machinery: Opportunities and trade-offs in Bangladesh livestock systems	17
Assessing the effect of soil testing on chemical fertilizer use intensity: An empirical analysis of phosphorus fertilizer demand by Irish dairy farmers	17
Investigating the Slow Food - Place relation: An empirical study of dairy communities in Abruzzo	17
‘The day I killed my cows was the day I walked away’: Mycoplasma bovis, moral economy and moral capital	17
Reviving rural “dead capital” through transferable development rights: A spatial justice analysis of online citizen–government interactions in China	17
Soil-based carbon farming: Opportunities for collaboration	17
Fisheries area-based partnerships in European multilevel governance: understanding embeddedness in organisational environments	17
Banditry as rural crime?	17
Formative influences: How capital shapes rural students’ college-going intentions	17
Follow the rainbow home: Destabilizing urbanormativity and rural gentrification at LGBT pride in rural New York	17
Trans in Arcadia: Transgender lives in the countryside and expanding Philo's ‘rural others’ beyond the cis	17
Pathways of displacement: A pan-Canadian perspective on the nature and dynamics of rural and remote homelessness	16
How does reverse entrepreneurship facilitate community transformation in rural China: Evidence from the Yellow Revier	16
Ways of (un)knowing landscapes: Tracing more-than-human relations in regenerative agriculture	16
Policy discourses on homecare services for rural older people in Ireland: Spatial and age-based drivers of narratives and absences	16
Production and reconstruction mechanism of consumption spaces in urban fringe areas under capital intervention: Evidence from Guangming town in Shenzhen	16